Feature writer Michael Tierney, from The Herald in Glasgow, has scooped a prestigious award at the British Press Awards.

He was named Feature Writer of the Year at the event at London’s Hilton Park Lane Hotel, and beat shortlisted candidates from the Daily Mail, Sunday Times, the Times, Daily Telegraph, and London Evening Standard.

His winning entry included a series of features on the Ku Klux Klan, punishment beatings in Belfast, and suicide bombers, and judges praised Michael for “bringing a sharp intelligence and humanity to his writing”.

Meanwhile Sarah Kate-Templeton, health editor of the Sunday Herald, scooped the Health Writer of the Year award.

Both were presented with their awards by TV presenter Clive Anderson.

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